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VAGABUNDUS

Choreography: Idio Chichava

Migration is as old as the world, but is it fully understood? Often, we conceptualize it through words – positive or negative, voluntary or forced, an invisible wave or flood of people. It is a statistic, an emergency, a trend, a border control; but above all it is something other than a natural human urge. The migrant is today’s nomad, the settler, the discoverer, but also today’s vagabond – a wanderer, an idler, a brigand. Mozambican choreographer Idio Chichava shows migration through the prism of the body. To build the choreography, he draws inspiration from the dance ritual of the Makonde people living in Mozambique and neighbouring countries, and the concept of fusing the dancing and singing of the human body into one global body. Convinced of the energetic connection between people, and inspired by his cultural roots, Idio Chichava offers audiences a performance with a powerful energetic charge – as personal as it is universal.

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